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My Six Random Things for the Taxman

Six Random Things
Bill Miranda (@TaxMan45) tagged me, according to the following "official" rules:

Link to the person who tagged you.
Post the rules on your blog.
Write 6 random things about yourself.
Tag 6-ish people at the end of your post.
Let each person know he/she has been tagged.
Let the tagger know when your entry is up.

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My Randomizations

It's unlike me to respond to projects like Six Random Things - unless, of course, the TaxMan comes calling.
I was raised on a peninsula along the shores of Lake Erie and alternately in a home facing Booby Island off the coast of Nevis in the West Indies. I come by an affinity for large bodies, of water, naturally.
I'm apt to return lacerating cynicism with scything sarcasm and piercing satire with rapier wit, respectively and respectfully, of course. And, I can clap with one hand, either hand.
This excerpt:
"Pongileoni surpassed himself in the final Badinerie. Euclidean axioms made holiday with the formulæ of elementary statics. Arithmetic held a wild saturnalian kermess; algebra cut capers. The music came to an end in an orgy of mathematical merry-making."
from Huxley's Point Counter Point, speaks to every facet of my brain. I like it.
I once paid $35 to leap from the wing of an airplane featuring a faulty fuel line and a malfunctioning wheel lock.
My adventuresome brother has now lived abroad longer than he lived in the United States. He once shared an ocean-bound ship with his nine polar bears and a group of Maori as they traveled along the coast of Madagascar en route to Japan where he now resides.

I often refer to him as, Jai Congo. Drop him in a Venezuelan jungle with a K-bar knife and a quantity of rope and he'll walk out laughing.

Six-ish. All I could think of were these two:

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